Highland Park

Tim Willert HIGHLAND PARK -- Charlie is back where he belongs. The 3-year-old dachshund was reunited with his family on Tuesday after nearly a week away from home. "We thought somebody had stolen him," said 22-year-old Cindy Bustamante of Highland Park, the dog's owner. Charlie was discovered lying on Charters Avenue near York Boulevard in Eagle Rock on July 4 by La Crescenta resident Sonya Louthan. Louthan took the unidentified pooch to a pet hospital in Montrose, where X-rays revealed a broken foot that doctors said would cost $1,100 to repair.

MAYNARD 'MIKE' HUNT Maynard "Mike" Hunt died on Sept. 7, 2005. Hunt was born in Los Angeles, grew up in Highland Park and was a longtime resident of Burbank. Hunt is survived by his wife, Ginger; children, Kathy, Laura and James; grandchildren, Sarah, Sam, Brett and Sean; and extended grandchildren, Ruth, Dan and Ben. Memorial services will be held at noon on Oct. 1 at St. Francis Xavier Church, 3801 Scott Road, Burbank. In lieu of flowers, personal donations may be made in Hunt's honor to the Roy and Patricia Disney Cancer Center, 501 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank.

The Glendale News-Press visited an art class at Daily High School and asked students, ?What do you like most about art?? ? ?It?s colorful. It?s a way to express myself.? WOLF LONGINO, 16 Highland Park ? ? ? ? ?I like the fact that you can experiment.? JAMES MOYA, 17 Glendale ? ? ? ? ? ? ?It?s always fun to me, and it?s a way to express my feelings.? HECTOR HUERTA, 17 Glendale ?

1931 - 2004 Barbara Brooks Moffat, who lived most of her life in La Crescenta, died Tuesday of cancer. She was 72. Moffat was born Oct. 6, 1931 in Covina and grew up in Highland Park. She earned a bachelor's degree in music from UCLA and taught flute for 25 years. She is survived by her sons, Jeff Moffat of La Crescenta, and Clark Moffat of Fallbrook, Calif.; daughters Betsy Woodall and Kathleen Tobler, both of Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.; and brother Charles Brooks of Riverside.

Police still searching for missing man Glendale police continue to search for a 58-year-old Highland Park man who was last seen Thursday at Carr Park. Gilberto Lopez Delgado was on an outing at about 4 p.m. at the East Colorado Street park when he went missing, police said. Delgado is a 10-year resident of Fair Oaks Manor 3, a community home for the disabled. Delgado is described as 5 feet 7 inches, 165 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.

As a citizen of Northeast Los Angeles, reader of the News-Press and member of Los Angeles' shared cultural history, I am shocked at the News-Press' smarmy and dismissive regard for our remarkable Glendale Federal Bank Headquarters on Brand Boulevard in Glendale. In short, this magnificent building -- in a city where far too many magnificent buildings have been needlessly altered or torn down -- deserves a safe haven from the cultural terrorists who would rape her and deprive future generations of our collective memory.

GLENDALE ? Allegations of embezzlement have gripped a local youth football and cheerleading group that may have to cancel its 2008 season without at least $30,000 in missing funds. According to leaders of the Glendale Bears Youth Football and Cheerleading organization, the organization?s treasurer left town with the group?s entire budget ? estimated to be between $30,000 and $32,000 ? in her personal banking account. The future of their 2008 season, which was set begin Sept.

The United States was only a few years old and California was still under Spanish rule when Jose Maria Verdugo applied for permission to graze his cattle and horses in our fertile valleys. Verdugo, a native of Loreto, in Baja California, was serving as a military guard at the mission at San Gabriel. In 1784 he received one of the first land grants made in Alta California by the King of Spain and one of the largest ever issued during the Spanish occupation. That land now incorporates a good part of present day Glendale, Burbank, Eagle Rock, Highland Park, the west part of Pasadena and the area in the triangle formed by the junction of the Arroyo Seco and the Los Angeles River, according to Carroll W. Parcher in his chronicle, “Glendale Community Book.” The huge land grant remained intact for less than 100 years.

The Glendale News-Press visited an art class at Daily High School and asked students, ?What do you like most about art?? ? ?It?s colorful. It?s a way to express myself.? WOLF LONGINO, 16 Highland Park ? ? ? ? ?I like the fact that you can experiment.? JAMES MOYA, 17 Glendale ? ? ? ? ? ? ?It?s always fun to me, and it?s a way to express my feelings.? HECTOR HUERTA, 17 Glendale ?

GLENDALE — Allegations of embezzlement have gripped a local youth football and cheerleading group that may have to cancel its 2008 season without at least $30,000 in missing funds. According to leaders of the Glendale Bears Youth Football and Cheerleading organization, the organization’s treasurer left town with the group’s entire budget — estimated to be between $30,000 and $32,000 — in her personal banking account. The future of their 2008 season, which was set begin Sept.

GLENDALE — A Glendale man who was fatally shot Thursday in what police suspect was a gang-related incident was identified by authorities Monday. North Glendale resident Hermenegildo Islas Huitron, 35, died at about 8:20 p.m. Thursday, shortly after he was shot in a residential neighborhood in Highland Park about 2 miles east of Occidental College. “In this very first initial report, it does say the incident appears to be gang-related,” Los Angeles Police Officer Sara Faden said.

MAYNARD 'MIKE' HUNT Maynard "Mike" Hunt died on Sept. 7, 2005. Hunt was born in Los Angeles, grew up in Highland Park and was a longtime resident of Burbank. Hunt is survived by his wife, Ginger; children, Kathy, Laura and James; grandchildren, Sarah, Sam, Brett and Sean; and extended grandchildren, Ruth, Dan and Ben. Memorial services will be held at noon on Oct. 1 at St. Francis Xavier Church, 3801 Scott Road, Burbank. In lieu of flowers, personal donations may be made in Hunt's honor to the Roy and Patricia Disney Cancer Center, 501 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank.